All board members present: Mal, Mark, Liz, Sue, Laura, Mike and Barb

Treasurer’s Report
$44,879.20 assets
Money market (see Wirenews) Rescue (see Wirenews)

Secretary’s Report
Nomination committee according to By-laws should be done by July 1st. Vice President, Secretary, Western Director and Eastern Director up for nomination.

Committee Reports
Rescue
Mal–Problem with forms going to Laura Myles not to rescue person in that area.

Barb–Has not had any problems with this

Sue–Paying a large amount of money to rent a car, gas etc… to pick up a rescue dog in Nevada amount billed around $700.00 amount pd /approved by Laura Myles $500.00.

Barb to contact Laura regarding cap on spending. Amounts over $400.00 should go to Board for approval. This was approved by the Board 2 years ago.

Standard Review
Joy contacted by Mark, for report for this meeting. Questions sent to Mark from Joy, regarding the changes to be made. The word crisp! AKC objects to negativity in the breed standard. It really is about evaluating the breeding stock. Board discussed crisp versus other descriptive terms.

FEAC
Mark contacted Doug regarding a report.

National Master Hunter Test: Votes–Mal and Mike against, Liz, Laura okay as long as it doesn’t interfere with Nationals. Barb rethought her original decision and now is not in favor, Mark not in favor, Sue not in favor if interferes with the Nationals. Majority against therefore a note should be sent to Doug explaining reasons ie felt it was too competitive, also felt there are other activities for those dogs to do, NAVHDA, NASTR. Board also felt that it might interfere with Nationals. FEAC has an opportunity to disagree with the board’s decision, then they should communicate with Larry Voecks regarding this decision

SEAC
Laura talked to Judy this weekend regarding the format of the SEAC. Try to capture the purpose of the committee in the purpose statement. Obedience and agility judges should also be selected by this committee. There are members on the committee that can have input into these judges.

Website
Our webmaster or the company that he is working with are no longer doing anything on our site. Most of the hits are on the chat board, therefore possibly it would help to set up a link to yahoo for the chat boards. Need immediate update on our website.

Sean will provide new person with the information needed asap Sean does not want to do the updates!

Recommendation from Mark – Laura has a few people in mind to manage this site. Laura said she has people that can immediately do updates and then research other people to take on the task and create a new website. Also Laura recommends that we immediately ditch the chat boards and switch to yahoo for the chat with a link on our site. Vote all in favor, and Laura to get in touch with several website people on costs and then get back to the Board with these figures. Board will then discuss these proposals. Needs to be done ASAP.

Regional Directors
All is good. Nothing new from any of the Directors.

2005 Nationals
Liz–All info will be to the Secretary by July 1st. Info packet should be out by the middle of July. All judges for field trial have been contacted. There will be a local club hosting a field trial the weekend of the show. Host hotel Barkers Island Inn. Show site is U of WI Superior. You can view this facility on the Twin Cities website.

2006 Nationals
Rumor, unconfirmed that the Nationals may be held in Northern CA, but as of this date this is unconfirmed. Liz to contact Ellis regarding this information.

New Business:
Karen Potter received scholarship for 2005-2006 from AKC She is a member of Ft Detroit GWPC

AKC Eukanuba National championship suggestion to ask Christi Chism to head up this booth. Barb to contact Christi regarding this to see if she would be willing to host the Meet the Breeds booth again.

CHF conference Oct 21-23 in St Louis. Mark to contact Regina Schwab to attend.

2006 nominating committee. Western Director- Mike Hemphill, Eastern Director- Mal Decker. Vice President Laura Reeves-Lococco Secretary- Barb Tucker. The committee would like to have 2 nominees for each office, however our Constitution at this time only allows for 1 nomination, but the membership is encouraged to submit additional names. Barb and Mike do not want to continue on in their current offices so the committee is looking for nominees.

Meeting adjourned 10:40PM

Respectfully submitted, Barb Tucker